Things continue to go well. Jack is now in his second week of school and is still enjoying it. Molly still misses him, but the two of us are keeping busy. I am one of three parents on the school's committee to decide what the curriculum will be and what changes need to be made from last year. It is good. Molly and I will be going to a co-op preschool about 45 min from here staring in September. And I think she is going to start Kumon like Jack did back in the day. Brian is working hard, but still has such a nice amount of time at home. We are all busy beavers.

This is a a picture I took of Half Dome from our front porch. Every morning Brian and the kids say good morning to Half Dome, Glacier Point and the Royal Arches. Those are the three granite walls we can see from our house.

This week we have been working on getting pictures hung up in the house and everything put away. My parents are going to be here for a week arriving on Friday. The kids are very excited to see them and to see Izzy (our dog) who has been visiting my parents while we moved across the country.

Pilates starts tonight for me, so that will be lots of fun! I can't wait. Molly and I have been bike riding in the mornings after we drop Jack off at school. I also have found the Race For the Cure, which I have done in Orlando the past few years, is in Fresno too!!! I am very excited about running again (took a break over the summer in Orlando - to darn hot) :-)

Brian and Jack have been working on some bike riding lessons and it is going very well. Molly just likes to run behind them yelling instructions at Jack. The whole thing is pretty funny!

1st day of 1st grade at Yosemite Valley School

Jack had his first day of 1st grade yesterday and he loved it. He is going to the Yosemite Valley school and it has only three classes. He is in the first class that has the kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. He had a great time and met lots of nice friends. There are about 13 kids in his entire class. He is having a hoot. He was very excited to go back again today! Tomorrow (they have half days on Thursdays) they are going for a walk at lunch time down to one of the meadows here to have lunch. He was talking about that all last night and all morning today - can't wait!!

Molly missed him yesterday and was a bit sad this morning when she finally woke up (she is not much of a morning person - similar to Aunt Sissy and Beedi) to find that he was already gone. But she is now having some breakfast and watching the Backyardigans, so she is content for now.

Jack was telling us last night at supper that he loves Florida and Brian looked at Molly and she said, "I just love Pizza". So that kinda sums up Molly's thoughts on the state of things. As long as there is pizza she will be happy enough.

We Have Arrived

Yeah!!! We are here in Yosemite at last! We have been here for about two weeks now and we are all having a great time! Our first weekend we walked down to the river (The Merced) and let the kids throw rocks, it was a lot of fun!


Since then we have done lots of bike riding (b/c that is the best way around) and lots of hiking. The kids have really gotten into it. Jack got some new hiking shoes and thinks himself a rock climber now. And Molly has Jack's Timberland boots and has declared herself the Mountain Princess. So we are enjoying ourselves quite a bit.

I feel like I am at summer camp every day. It's great. We have met lots of really nice people and we are excited to see and do all there is for us to do. We miss you all so much. We were actually doing alright, hadn't cried to much and then last night Bri and I were watching tv and the Launch Experience commercial came on (for those of you who don't know, Brian worked at Kennedy Space Center for 10 years before we came to Yosemite). We both looked at each other and we couldn't believe how homesick that commercial made us. Sad for us. We truly do miss you all and can't wait for you to come visit!!

On Our Way...

Well, we are officially moved out of the house. It was sad to leave it and very hard to say goodbye to all our dear family and friends. We had an amazing going away party with our dear friends, and that was super hard, but we thank them all for being the best friends ever!!! Chris Henn, so sorry it has taken me so long to update, but thanks for checking :-)

We are on the road now and we spent our first sad night away from Florida in our second home in Etowah TN at our adopted parents. Thank you Ralph and Polly for your gracious hospitality and the most delicious food in all the world!!!! Fried Green Tomatoes ROCK!!!!!!

Today we are in Kansas visiting cousins! It has been a hoot- many laughs had by all. We will be spending one more night here and the tomorrow we are off to the Kansas Cosmosphere. After that the road is open before us with many options.

I will try to keep you all updated. I am sorry there are no pictures this time. We have taken quite a few, but have not had time to upload them yet. As soon as we do I will post them! Take care! We love you all!

Brian's First Few Days

Well. Today is Brian's first day at his new job. He flew out sat morning and went to church yesterday at our new little valley church. Brian said it was wonderful!! Isn't it the most beautiful little church in all the world!! I think it is so cute!

The kids and I continue to get the house ready and get Molly fully recovered. She had a rough weekend, but seems to be doing better now.

Talk to you all soon!

Goodbye Kennedy Space Center

Well, last Friday night we had a very fun but sad goodbye party from our wonderful KSC family. We had some great poems and songs about Brian's 10 years at the Space Center. It was definitely Brianfest 2007. It was hard to say goodbye and everyone will be missed. Thank you to all our dear friends at KSCVC!!

So the next week, Tuesday July 3, little Molly had to have her tonsils and adenoids out b/c she has sleep apnia. We had to be at the hospital at 7am and she was a very brave little soldier. I think it was harder on us than her! But she did amazing!! Brian and I stayed all day in the hospital with her and then Brian went home and I stayed overnight. She was released in the morning after a breakfast of pancakes on Wednesday (July4th). We had a quite day, but Molly was up running around a chasing Jack most of the day. So we are quite glad that is all over. And no more snoring and stopping her breathing :-)

Quite the week. Brian leaves tomorrow morning at 6am (Thanks to Uncle Dan who is taking him to the airport at 3:30). He will be out in Yosemite for 2-3 weeks. Then he will return for us. These next three weeks will be very busy here at home. Jack will have a friend from school and his little brother to play with next week. And we will be getting everything ready to head out.

Talk soon!

Okay, the people in the picture of the house are Brian and the housing lady from Yosemite. The actual address of the house is H-115, 9033 Tecoya Road, Yosemite, CA 95389, but if anyone would like to send us snail mail you have to send it to the PO Box they gave us which is PO Box 805, Yosemite, CA 95389.

I have a link here for you all to see. This link is the view form our front porch, it is a live webcam of Half Dome.
http://www.yosemite.org/vryos/AhwahneeMeadowCam.htm
Not a bad view to wake up to!! :-)

Now if you come to visit, the picture in the corner is what you will see as you drive in. It is called tunnel view. It is beautiful.

WE ARE MOVING!!!!

Hi everyone,

I realize that some of you already know this but we are moving to Yosemite National Park at the end of July. Brian will be the Director of Marketing for the Park. My dearest and best friend (Amanda K) just moved to Singapore and created a moving blog to keep us all updated! I thought that was a great idea, so I am doing the same. Check back whenever you would like, I will try to keep it updated.

We are all very excited to get out there, but we do have some things to do in the meantime. The moving van man comes today to help us figure out what size truck we will need. Then we have ot figure out what goes into storage and what will come with us. Our house is a bit smaller than we have now, but very cute and you can't beat the view!! I will get a view picture soon.

So, I hope you are all getting ready to come visit us! Talk soon!